Peter Saville (graphic designer)

Peter Saville ( born 1955 ) is a graphic designer from Manchester, who primarily for his album covers for Joy Division, OMD, New Order and other bands of the label, Factory Records was known.

His works - for example, the legendary cover of the New Order single Blue Monday in the form of an 8 "floppy disk or the cover of the album Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division -. Characterized by a reduced, minimalist style A common stylistic device Saville is omitting the name of the artist and / or album title, sometimes he works with encodings.

Career

Saville studied from 1975 to 1978 at the Polytechnic University of Manchester graphic design. His main influences at this time were the book Pioneers of Modern Typography by Herbert Spencer and The New Typography by Jan Tschichold and the work of his friend Malcolm Garrett for the punk band Buzzcocks.

Saville came up with the music scene in contact after he had the TV journalist Tony Wilson in 1978 met at a concert by Patti Smith and shortly after got the job, the first poster (Fac 1) for Factory Records design. After he had completed his studies in July 1978, he founded, among others, Wilson, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus, the music label Factory Records. Along with the music producer Martin Hannett was Saville its creative team and responsible for both acoustically and visually distinctive image of the publications of the label.

In 1979 Saville moved to London, where he was art director of Din Disc, a branch of the company of the Virgin Group. In this capacity, he designed many groundbreaking covers for a number of artists from Roxy Music to OMD. Later he founded his company Peter Saville Associates, with whom he worked alongside his work in the music environment for customers such as CNN, Adobe Systems, Givenchy and Stella McCartney.